If Gov. Bobby Jindal gives his approval to a bill passed by the legislature, some technical college classes at various LTC campuses in North Louisiana will be transferable to a two or four-year college.

A bill that would offer more college opportunities for Lincoln Parish residents passed the House and Senate last Thursday and now awaits a signature from Gov. Bobby Jindal and approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools before it becomes official.

The bill, Senate Bill 645, will provide for the merger of certain Northeast Louisiana Technical College campuses — including Ruston’s and the North Central campus in Farmerville — with Louisiana Delta Community College.

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BATON ROUGE (AP) — As testimony ended Thursday in a legal challenge against Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher program, the mother of a New Orleans student defended the program and said it is offering her son a better education than his siblings got in public school.

After two-days of questioning witnesses, lawyers will present final arguments to Judge Tim Kelley today.

As of Jan. 1, curbside recycling begins, residential garbage pickup drops to once a week, service rates for some categories of commercial dumpsters increase and alterations come in residential trash collection.

Those changes are among ones Ruston’s Board of Aldermen unanimous approved Monday night when they adopted a series of amendments to the city’s garbage, trash and weeds ordinance.

The new rules also extend recycling and household garbage pickup to parish residents living within three miles of the Ruston city limits.

Lincoln Parish residents will have a chance to learn more about the Lincoln Parish School District when Superintendent Danny Bell presents the first “State of the District” report.

The event, slated for noon Tuesday at the Historic Ruston Fire House, is to be the first report in collaboration with the city master plan Ruston 21 initiative.

Rusty Woodard, co-chair with Jo Ann Dauzat of the Ruston 21 Education Committee, said the event was something suggested by the Ruston 21 Committee.

“The reason for the recommendation was that all of the (School Performance Scores and individual test score) results are all very metric or number oriented as with other school districts in the state,” Woodard said. “What Ruston 21 recommended — and what I’m really glad the school board has adopted — is a plan to have a public meeting and let the public know how Lincoln Parish stands in relation to other districts in the state as far as test results and School Performance Scores.”

But, Woodard said that’s only half of what Tuesday’s meeting will be about.

“The second purpose is for the superintendent to talk to the community about what the superintendent and the school system need us in the general public to do,” Woodard said. “Unless the community totally supports our school system, it would be unfair for us to say we want the best system in the state but that we’re not willing to do what we need to do to help them to get there.”